Desire Quotes

• I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.

  

  Antony Tudor
  • Desire
  • Dance
  • Dancers

• Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Desire
  • Acting
  • Process

• The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

  

  John Strachan
  • Feeling
  • Action
  • Christian

• This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions - never.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Desire
  • Weird
  • Famous

• Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

  

  Jenny Shipley
  • Women
  • Peace
  • Decision

• My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

  

  Janine Turner
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Forgiveness

• Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Society
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• The desire to learn from people was always bound up with the desire to seem special to them.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Desire
  • Learn

• Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Men

• A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Habit
  • Dissatisfaction
  • Cleanliness

• The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system is not concentrated in a few hands, whether in Washington or in high finance or in any single group or constituency.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Long
  • Power
  • American

• For the love that is purest and sweetestHas a kiss of desire on the lips.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Desire
  • Kiss

• There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Heart
  • Flower
  • Hearts

• I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.

  

  Maynard Webb
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • Great
  • Desire

• I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

  

  James Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • Money

• Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

  

  Laverne Cox
  • Control
  • Desire

• I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

  

  John Cleese
  • Desire

• The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

  

  Heraclitus
  • World
  • Desire
  • Dissatisfaction

• There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Together
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life - the idea of a woman's role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That's what keeps me alive, and if I couldn't keep creating that, I'd fall into a bit of heap.

  

  Jane Badler
  • Life
  • Music
  • Society

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